James, you are a true gent. Also thanks to Nick for making this model, and a big hand to all of those who helped it see the light of day.

Flat out work wise (with the added spice of a stinking cold) so not had any time to look at this. However, my current work ends on Friday so I will have plenty of time over the weekend & the coming Christmas break to attack this and other projects; looking forward to getting stuck in, it will be...

I've made a start on both, although time is at a premium this week so if anybody else fancies a crack ......

Thanks John, great work as usual. Stunning models, I will have no qualms about using the Mark 7 to pass for the earlier marks.

The book I have with details is in storage at the moment but, as I recall, it is a sort of squadron coding with knobs on! It is not dissimilar to the US Navy modex system. Each squadron is given a number block, and the three number codes are allocated from within that block; so far so simple. But th...

The earlier variants would be nice John. The Marks 1-6 (apart from the trainer, obviously) were all cosmetically pretty similar I think people could live with/without vortex generators etc) and didn't carry the missiles iirc so one model could cover all; the Mark 8 and Mark 9 were virtually identica...

Nope, no polish air force paints, I have had the IRIS mig-29 for years. Czech, German, Soviet, and a bunch of other not Polish paints. And I am not looking for AI paints, I am looking for Kirk Olssen F-16 block 52 polish air force ...... :smt002 ko163elt.zip, ko166elt.zip and ko16pelt.zip on Flight...

Thanks for the answer John. I'll keep looking, maybe I'll find an alternative somewhere, but haven't so far.

That is all looking rather lovely John, looking forward to the day when I can get my greasy paws on it. Speaking of which ...... Bruntingthorpe is now the home for the former Wattisham QRA hangar; is this scenery being built in library format, thus giving us the opportunity to dress up Brunters appr...

The scenery is the George Knowles scenery that has been around since FS2000. There is a small thread about this up on SOH, looks like a very promising project.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/s ... intresting

More than happy to wait Mike, the anticipation makes the joy all the keener. *


* Been stuck on trains reading lots of wordy books, so sorry for the pretentiousness.

Looking like another winner Mike, can't wait to get these on my system (I'll have a free day soon....won't I?). Part 4 is up on Avsim, oddly part 3 has not yet appeared - go figure.

Waiting with bated breath for the -27s, the skies over the Himalayas look kinda empty at the moment.

That's perfectly understandable John, Rick Piper said much the same thing when asked if he was planning to 'modify' his civvy Argosy into the military version. I'm just really grateful that you have finished this wonderful model, as it fills a much needed gap in the retro RAF line-up; a couple of da...

There's an old thread on PPrune that might shed some light on the subject.

http://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-390770.html

Even better advice is to get rid of Norton & replace it with a freebie A/V programme (I usually recommend AVG); Norton (and McAfee) are buggy, resource hungry and noted for returning false positives.

Jim, Have already organised some repaints and plans and I'm in the early stage of doing the base at Hindon. Makes note to scrap work on Hindon already done. :lol: Your's will be way better than mine Stewart, so looking forward to it. Andy, if you've made some progress with Hindon then go for it mat...

Stewart Pearson wrote:Jim,

Have already organised some repaints and plans and I'm in the early stage of doing the base at Hindon.

Makes note to scrap work on Hindon already done.

Your's will be way better than mine Stewart, so looking forward to it.

My ex-father in law was a Warrant Officer in the early '60s, and was assigned to Thor. As part of his training he went to Vandenberg and actually got to participate in the firing of one of the test missiles; it was part of a twin shot, and the footage of that launch has been reused in innumerable fi...

Alphasim actually did an AI version (although possibly not true AI) which they included with their RAF Waddington scenery; a quick search for "RAF Waddington" should find it for you, re-released by Team SDB. If you fancy some new clothes for the flyable version, Matt Wynn and I put togethe...

I have heard tell that MCX can be used to manipulate the crash box but when I had a look at the FGR4 but it didn't seem to have one so my guess is that the Tiffs are not the problem, although it might need an experienced adult to double-check this. Isn't it also possible to do that with ACM? Could ...